The country’s carefully orchestrated equivalent of the opening of parliament provided no answers on the battered economy or the damage to public opinion following the harsh and prolonged coronavirus lockdown.

China’s regime faces difficult questions post-COVID as Xi Jinping tightens grip with unprecedented third term

Hundreds of masked security men kept a watchful eye at the tightly controlled event

Beijing’s Great Hall of the People is magnificent.…

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